Danny Lee Ford was born on April 2,1948 and is an American former college football player and coach.
14 Facts About Danny Ford
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Danny Ford played college football at the University of Alabama from 1967 to 1969.
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Danny Ford received a bachelor's degree in industrial arts in 1970 and a master's degree in special education in 1971 from Alabama.
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Danny Ford coached as an assistant at Alabama and Virginia Tech before joining Charley Pell's staff at Clemson.
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Pell left for the University of Florida after the end of the 1978 season, and Danny Ford was named his successor.
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Danny Ford didn't take long to recover from the probation, and won three straight ACC titles from 1986 and 1988.
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Danny Ford resigned on January 18,1990, after a falling out with Clemson administration.
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Danny Ford was cleared in an NCAA investigation that was announced around that time.
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Danny Ford was the third winningest coach in the country on a percentage basis after the 1989 season.
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Danny Ford coached 21 All-Americans and 41 players who went on to play in the NFL, during his 11 seasons at Clemson.
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The speculation bore fruit after the season, when Danny Ford was named head coach.
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Danny Ford led Arkansas to an SEC West championship in 1995 on the legs of Madre Hill and the defensive genius of Joe Lee Dunn, after emerging from two years under Crowe.
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Hatfield took the Clemson job in January 1990, less than a week after Danny Ford resigned, without even visiting the campus.
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Danny Ford proved to be a solid recruiter, as his replacement at Arkansas, Houston Nutt, went on to win 17 games in the 1998 and 1999 seasons combined, to include a 1998 SEC West co-championship and a Cotton Bowl championship on January 1,2000, with a victory over Texas.